more on RE: definition of "meta"

[Jul,Erik]

> Diane Madrigal [SMTP:DMADRIGA at MAIL.NYSED.GOV]
> 
	writes:

> The Federal Geographic Data Committee's pamphlet, "The Value of
> Metadata," provides this definition of (geospatial) metadata:
> 
> "Meta means change 
	[Jul,Erik]  

	that's a new one to me.  Is there a source for this definition?

> and metadata, 
> or "data about data," describes the
> origins of and tracks the changes to geospatial data."
> 
> Diane Madrigal
> New York State Library
	[Jul,Erik]  

	--Erik

	Erik Jul
	jul at oclc.org